Plenty of expansion opportunities here with the ASRock AM2V890-VSTA motherboard. The floppy drive controller is at the bottom of the motherboard, ASRock should have put it somewhere else IMHO. Note the open-ended PCI Express x4 connector which can accommodate a PCI Express x16 videocard. The VIA K8T890 chipset requires nothing more than a passive heatsink cooling.

ASRock colour coordinate the DDR2 memory slots so you will know which slots to use to enable dual channel memory support. If you're upgrading from another Athlon64 platform, take note of AMD's new Socket AM2 heatsink retention mechanism.

The VIA VT8237A Southbridge does not generate much heat, and that's why it does not need to be cooled with a heatsink. Plan your storage purchases accordingly, there are only two Serial ATA and two parallel IDE channels. for storage devices.